A case for Blockchain on Kubernetes

Happenstance brought me in front of an enthusiastic, spirited, and ambitious duo of entrepreneurs who were running a fast-moving blockchain startup. Plagued by operations and latency woes, their search for relief led them to Kubernetes, and then me.

This article explains my evaluation of Kubernetes for running Hyperledger Fabric, a platform for blockchain implementation.

The concerns shared by the entrepreneurs around blockchain infrastructure were:

In order to understand how Kubernetes can address these concerns for blockchain infrastructure, I setup Hyperledger Fabric on a Kubernetes cluster (full details in my next blog post!). This learning process also helped me land at this conclusion:

Kubernetes standardizes processes around

The value of standardization is that these processes can be automated and therefore repeated with low effort. There are tools available in the Kubernetes ecosystem for all of the above concerns.

Kubernetes stands on the shoulders of a large community. The active community brings with it a rich set of tools and solutions for most problems faced while managing and automating infrastructure.

The plethora of tools and solutions save precious time by letting you focus on what’s important — building your blockchain application.

Kubernetes’ controller framework allows infinite extensibility (theoretically). It is possible to automate management of blockchain infrastructure after it is deployed and is already running.

Dynamic provisioning of new blockchain networks on the fly can be automated using controllers.

The above three reasons make Kubernetes a compelling choice for automating blockchain architectures.

In the next article in this series, I will explain the architecture of Hyperledger fabric and how it can be run using Kubernetes.

Stay tuned for more Kubernetes + Blockchain!

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